Sean Erwin, PhD

Assistant Professor of Philosophy

Profile

Sean Erwin earned a BA in Philosophy from Pennsylvania State University and an MA and PhD from Vanderbilt University. His main research interests are in medieval and renaissance philosophy, French continental philosophy, Machiavelli, Spinoza, Foucault and Deleuze. His book, A War of One’s Own – Armed Force and The Aleatory Notion of Governance in Machiavelli, investigates how Machiavelli links successful republican governance to the necessity of returning a state to its first principles at regular intervals.

Book Reviews

In Submission

A War of One’s Own – Mercenaries, Auxiliaries and Mixed Forces in Machiavelli. Book proposal, currently under review with Edinburgh University Press.
“The Art of War and the Question of Having One’s Own Arms”, translation from French, under review at War and Society.

“Killing the Sons of Brutus: Machiavelli on Repetition, Revolution and Return”, under review at The British
Journal of the History of Philosophy.

“The Art of War and the Question of Having One’s Own Arms”, translation from French, under review at
War and Society.

In Preparation

“Cut off the head of the king?” – Surveillance Studies, Societies of Control and the Security Mechanism.

“Spinoza’s Radicalizing of Machiavellian Republicanism in the Tractatus Politicus”

CONFERENCE ACTIVITY/PARTICIPATION

2016 ““Cut Off the Head of the King?” Contemporary Surveillance Analysis and the Society of Control”, Deleuze Studies Conference, Annual Meeting, Rome, Italy, June 13-15.